GC Forms does not currently support editing a published form. However, we know it may become necessary to make an update to a form you’ve published. While editing a published form is not an available feature, there is another way to change the form content you have live. This requires publishing a new version, where you’ll have to download a copy of the published form and then re-upload it to modify a new form.
Make sure to update all links pointing to the form when you re-publish
You may also consider closing your old form so it’s not accepting submissions.
- Sign in to GC Forms.
- In Forms, go to the card of published form you want to modify.
- In the “More” menu in the bottom-right corner, select “Save to computer”.
- Once saved, select “Create new form”.
- Select “Open a form file”.
- Choose the file that was just saved to upload the form file.
- In the side navigation, go to “Edit” (the first item) to modify the form.
- Once the form is updated, go to “Publish”.
- Note that new English and French URL links will be generated.
- Update all instances of the URL links toward the new form links to direct people to the newly published form.
- We also suggest that once your new form is published, that you close the old form (via Settings > Form management). When closing a form, you can add a customized closed form message where you can include the link to the new form redirecting users. Only the closed form message content will be visible to users, once your form is closed.
